Chapter 49: Catching the Shrimp
The establishment of the new team was completed in less than two days.
As the second team of Honghuang Studio, its main task is to maintain the game "Monster Hunter" and its subsequent development.
We strive to make it the first IP of Honghuang and enhance their influence in the industry.
So in addition to Lao Li, who is responsible for the management team, Chen Lin also arranged two old employees and eight new employees to assist him.
As for the Dawn team, it continues to expand its recruitment and is responsible for the research and development of new games.
It is also the main production department of Honghuang at present.
After finishing everything, Lao Song walked into the office with a document.
"Chen Lin, the market trend during this period has been sorted out."
His expression was very serious, as if he had encountered some difficulty.
"What happened?" Chen Lin asked.
"Yes." Old Song nodded and handed the document to the table. "I just got the news that other industries have been sluggish recently. Many investment companies have begun to change their strategies and are preparing to enter the gaming industry."
“So soon?”
Chen Lin's eyes suddenly became serious.
The influx of capital is not good news for them.
Because the main purpose of those guys is to make money, and their business scope covers almost all industries, the accumulated resources are absolutely unimaginable.
Compared with real capital.
Game companies like Huanhai are just younger brothers!
In other words, Huanhai is operated by capital, and it is just a tool to make money in the gaming industry.
A few years ago.
Chen Lin had expected this day to come.
But I didn't expect it to come so soon.
"If this rate continues, many game companies will be acquired or controlled by the end of the year. We have to prepare in advance." Lao Song said with some concern.
In fact, as early as the day when "Monster Hunter" was released, someone called him to discuss investment, but he refused.
But I have to admit it.
Even he was tempted by the price offered by the other party.
So he was very worried. If Honghuang really went public one day and its equity was gradually diluted, would Honghuang still be the original Honghuang?
After all, he has seen too many such examples.
"Don't worry, I have no plans to list Honghuang." Chen Lin said, as if knowing what he was thinking.
He now holds more than 95% of Honghuang's shares and has absolute say.
If the company goes public and accepts financing, the results will be different.
He doesn't want anyone to tell him what to do.
Hearing him say this, Old Song was relieved: "It's good that we don't go public, but we still have to prepare in advance and accumulate more funds and resources to meet this market impact."
"That's what I thought." Chen Lin smiled. "I may not be as good as you in other aspects, but when it comes to making money from games, I'm still pretty good at it."
"So you have a new plan?" Old Song's eyes lit up.
"not yet."
“…”
"Do you have any ideas?"
"What can I think? You know how bad the games we made before were." Old Song smiled bitterly.
If he hadn't met Chen Lin, he wouldn't have known how bad the games they made were. It was really a compliment to him to let him come up with a plan.
Just as Chen Lin said.
His strength is not in game design at all.
"I remember that you mainly made racing games before, right?" Chen Lin suddenly remembered something and said.
"It is indeed a racing game, what's wrong?"
"What do you think about us making a game of this kind? It happens to be something you are good at, and it can also expand the business direction of the studio."
"Uh... isn't this a good idea?"
Old Song said with a troubled look on his face.
It is true that racing games are their strong point, but they are also his sore spot.
Because what they made before was never popular at all!
And there are quite a few racing games on the market now.
For example, "Exploding Motorcycle", "Death Race", "Racing Simulator" and so on.
Although it cannot be said to be extremely popular, it occupies a considerable position in the player circle. It is not easy for new games of the same type to shake it, and major breakthroughs must be made.
Thinking of this, he quickly dissuaded: "Forget it. Our Monster Hunter is becoming more and more famous now. We have finally established a foothold in the adventure category. If we suddenly change the track to other types, I am afraid that players will not buy it."
"How do you know that the racing game we made won't be popular? Are you so unconfident in your own business?"
Chen Lin raised his eyebrows.
As an employee of Honghuang, how can you only make one or two types of games?
We have to build confidence in these guys.
"You can't say I'm not confident. I'm just considering the future of the company." Lao Song forced a smile. "After all, this is a critical period. It's hard to compete with the capital with just the first few games. The most important thing is to produce more hits."
"So, I think racing games are very suitable. You have to trust my judgment." Chen Lin took over his words.
At the same time, open the search page on the computer and quickly enter a few words.
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Seeing the result, he smiled.
Who says racing games can’t be popular?
Isn't the solution right here?
Without further ado, he opened the drawer next to him, took out a previously prepared design plan, and handed it to Lao Song.
"Let's take a look at this first and see if we can make it with the manpower we have now."
"You even have a plan?"
Old Song was stunned. It turned out that you were not joking just now!
But after taking the plan and looking at it for a while, he froze, with a hint of shock in his eyes.
"This... this was made by you?"
"Well, I found some time to make it some time ago. It might be a bit difficult. You should estimate whether you can do it before considering the next step."
In order to deal with various things that might happen next, Chen Lin made a lot of preparations.
These design plans were the ones he spent his time coming up with.
It came in handy today and saved me a lot of preparation work.
"It does look very difficult." Old Song nodded as he flipped through the pages, "Especially the extreme realism of the track scenes and the complete simulation of physical collisions. 3D rendering with ordinary engines simply cannot do that."
"But we have the Honghuang Engine." Chen Lin said lightly.
Honghuang's self-developed engine is definitely the biggest weapon of their studio.
Not only is its functionality more powerful than other engines on the market, its rendering accuracy is also absolutely unmatched.
Just because other manufacturers can’t do it doesn’t mean they can’t do it.
It just requires more manpower and resources.
"Indeed, we have the Honghuang Engine." Old Song took a deep breath, "In that case, let Liming design the plan. We guarantee that we can make it for you!"
"That's right, I'll wait for your good news."
Since then, the fourth game project of Honghuang Studio has finally been confirmed.
